{"id":134822,"date":"2022-01-28T06:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-biodegradable-straws-are-made-by-bacteria"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:24:03","slug":"new-biodegradable-straws-are-made-by-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-biodegradable-straws-are-made-by-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"New biodegradable straws are made by bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0wqrfHoqmRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New biodegradable straws <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202111713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developed<\/a> in China are as cheap as plastic, stronger than paper, and made from edible materials \u2014 but can they make a difference in the global plastic waste problem?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plastic everywhere:<\/strong> People produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/interactive\/beat-plastic-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">330 million tons<\/a> of plastic every year. Less than 9% of it is recycled, and about 12% is incinerated \u2014 the rest ends up polluting our natural environment or languishing in landfills.<\/p>\n<p>About half of this plastic is in disposable products \u2014 bags, straws, etc. Because these products are disposable, they\u2019re also cheap, so any equally disposable but more sustainable alternatives are going to need to be cheap, too \u2014 and similar quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New biodegradable straws developed in China are as cheap as plastic, stronger than paper, and made from edible materials \u2014 but can they make a difference in the global plastic waste problem? Plastic everywhere: People produce 330 million tons of plastic every year. Less than 9% of it is recycled, and about 12% is incinerated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}